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New Faces in Political Methodology

Borrowing from the example of several other disciplines, QuaSSI is hosting a small conference showcasing the research of seven rising scholars of political methodology.

Anyone who would like to attend is welcome to do so. Registration is free, and we expect to offer a level of hosting service commensurate with that fee. If you would like to attend, please register by sending an email to Burt Monroe.

Many visitors who intend to attend the event -- Altoonans and Williamsporters aside -- will need to find hotel accommodations. We have not booked any blocks of rooms, but would recommend options in roughly the following order:
  • Nittany Lion Inn (on campus, full at last check)
  • The Atherton, Atherton St. (campus-adjacent, full at last check)
  • The Days Inn, Pugh St. (campus-adjacent)
  • The Penn Stater, (on campus, but far flung and shuttle required)
  • Sleep Inn (walk to campus, long to downtown, fine)
  • Comfort Suites (same, meh)
  • Rodeway Inn (same, meh)
  • A drive: Hilton Garden Inn, Courtyard, Residence Inn, Ramada Inn, Fairfield Inn, Super 8
Further information about State College -- restaurants, etc. -- can be found on the website for the 2007 PolMeth meetings.

Further programmatic and logistical details (including a map to the conference site and parking recommendations) will be posted to this website. Registrants will also be sent email when that information becomes available.


Program
Saturday, May 3, 2008.
All events in the Business Building, Room 108.
Organizers: Burt Monroe, Christopher Zorn, Suzanna [DeBoef] Linn, David Carter
Time Speaker  
8:00 Breakfast

Opening Remarks, Burt Monroe (8:55)

 
9:00 Delia Bailey
PhD, California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University - St. Louis

“An Empirical Bayes Approach to Estimating Ordinal Treatment Effects: Examples from Political Science.”
(Paper joint with R. Michael Alvarez and Jonathan N. Katz, CalTech.)

 
10:00 Benjamin Lauderdale
ABD, Princeton University

“Bayesian Social Learning: A Model of Citizen Learning with Implications for Analyzing Survey Response.”

 
11:00 Jun Xiang
ABD, University of Rochester

“Modeling Unobservable Political-Military Relevance: A Split-Population Binary Choice Model With an Application to the Trade Conflict Debate.”

 
12:00 Lunch


 
1:00 Aya Kachi
ABD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Visiting Scholar, Princeton University

“Government Formation and Dissolution in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis Using Strategic Survival Models.”
(Paper joint with Jude C. Hays, University of Illinois.)

 
2:00 Andy Eggers
ABD, Harvard University

“MPs for Sale? Estimating the Returns to Office in the British House of Commons.”
(Paper joint with Jens Hainmueller, Harvard University.)

 
3:00 Eduardo Leoni
ABD, Columbia University

“The Political Consequences of Malapportionment in Brazil.”

 
4:00 Melanie Ann Goodrich
ABD, New York University

“A Coding Methodology for Open-Ended Survey Responses.”

 



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